The film stars Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek and Laura Linney.

The Roads Not Taken had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 26, 2020 and was released on March 13, 2020, by Bleecker Street.

After changing his clothes, Molly gets her father into another taxi only for Leo to get confused and stumble out the passenger door, hitting his head.

In the car, he bickers with Dolores over what road to take, leading him to exit the vehicle in a state of delirium.

Leo sits by the sea at a tavern run by his friend Mikael, and he meets and makes conversation with German tourist, Anni, who reminds him of his daughter back home.

That night, Anni and her friends board a party cruise that Leo secretly follows with his rowboat into the open sea.

He begins to recount the stories he believes are running parallel to his own life, including his marriage in Mexico as a young man and his unexpected death in Greece.

In December 2018, it was announced Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney and Chris Rock had joined the cast of the film, with Sally Potter directing and writing the screenplay.

[5] The film is dedicated to Nic Potter, Sally's brother, who suffered from Pick's Disease, a type of dementia.

[10] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bleecker Street partnered with distributors to virtually stream the film on participating theater websites splitting the revenue beginning April 10, 2020.

The site's critical consensus reads: "The Roads Not Taken is the well-acted result of an undeniably singular vision – one which is ultimately frustratingly, fatally inert.